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This is bewildering. As an American citizen who has no idea how the actual fuck we wound up with another Trump presidency, all I have to say is, if you live in any other country and think the answer is to import this bullshit into your own country, I have no sympathy for you.
Social media plays a big role in this. People have been inoculated with a state of mind that allows this kind of ideas to succeed.
It's not as simple as "Europeans are also voting for Trump-like parties". You have multi-party system in Europe and the far-right parties are mostly anti establishment movements. People are mad at lack of action from the governments when it comes to housing, climate, crime, immigration and social services issues. They are tired of both left and right wing parties so they voting for the alternatives now. It's not exactly some anti-intellectual, extreme conservative, anti-democratic movements like MAGA. Yes, it's still bad but most people support EU and democracy. While MAGA is a purely fascist movement trying to regain their dominant position over the minorities in EU it's more about frustration with the ruling class.
As an American, thank you for explaining this. It's still not great because it echoes what happened here. We are also stuck in a duopoly that was slowly being cranked to the right over decades. A lot of people were initially drawn to Trump because of his ideas of "draining the swamp" and sounding anti-establishment. I think the duopoly and the sense of anti-establishment under a capitalist economy (that turned into hypercapitalism) is where fascism really dug it's claws in and when things really started to accelerate. I have hope that this will result in something better after whatever happens happens, but I'm deeply worried about my family, my friends, my self with whatever comes next. I don't want people to die and suffer but that's already happening and has been happening. I feel powerless and it's awful.
Everyone everywhere is worried now. I really hope EU as a whole will survive and guard basic human rights (at least internally) but who knows?
Nah, fuck that. I plan to blow my head off anyway. Might as well stick an axe in some nazi as well.
I can help you, here.
We skipped the primary and coronated Liz Cheney as our party leader.
election was rigged like 3 times, plus Dems wont do anything, they are afraid of being labed the riggers by the conservative. at least the old guard is very complicit with the gop(they benefit from his tax cuts, and many are Dinos themselves)
That’s the thing. We have a foresight Americans don’t necessarily have and we’re still making a mess. It’s an even more damming reflection of our society.